Tessa Dunlop
The winner of MHM’s 2026 Book of the Year award on time travel, iconic women, and the complexity of conflict.
Interview
Sir Lawrence Freedman
The academic, historian, and author on war stories, shifting interests, and some memorable moments.
Damien Lewis
The best-selling author, historian, and film-maker on untold stories, personal heroes, and dream movie castings.
Jeremy Black
The author and historian on childhood reading habits and
new ways to look at the past.
Clare Mulley
The MHM award-winning author, historian, and broadcaster on overlooked stories and person-sized doorways to the past.
Ian Knight
The winner of MHM’s 2025 Book of the Year award on redcoats, distant battlefields, and the film that started it all.
David Olusoga
The historian and broadcaster on the weapons that changed the world, and why 1917 may be his favourite war film.
Iain MacGregor
The MHM award-winning author and publisher on meeting Hilary Mantel, and why Abraham Lincoln is his hero.
Phillips Payson O’Brien
The American-born writer and academic Phillips Payson O’Brien on an admirable dictator, and his fascination with failure.
Laurence Rees
The award-winning author and documentary film-maker on the Nazis, neuroscience, and why he doesn’t really like war movies.
Helen Fry
The historian and best-selling author on her obsession with espionage, and why she will always admire Edith Cavell.
James Holland
The best-selling historian on his obsession with World War II, and why he wouldn’t invite Monty to dinner.
The Romance of Ruins: curator Louise Stewart of Sir John Soane’s Museum discusses the art of the 1764 Ionian expedition
In a recent issue of Minerva magazine, Louise Stewart, Curator of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, discussed the young artist William Pars’ poetic images of the ruins he encountered on an expedition to Ionia (in modern-day Turkey)…
Interview: how the British Museum brought Becket back to life
Bringing together more than 100 objects from museums, churches, and private collections across Europe, 'Thomas Becket: Murder and the making of a saint' powerfully evokes the medieval era as it explores the life, death, and legacy of Henry II’s ‘turbulent priest’.